Quotes about Homeland
Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, be
— DH Lawrence
Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
— Genesis 30:25
So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s princes, “Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”
— Numbers 22:13
Then Balaam arose and returned to his homeland, and Balak also went on his way.
— Numbers 24:25
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
— 1 Samuel 6:9
Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you also go with us? Go back and stay with the new king, since you are both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.
— 2 Samuel 15:19
Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day.
— 2 Kings 17:23
for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
— Psalm 79:7
The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
— Isaiah 14:2
until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
— Isaiah 36:17
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
— Jeremiah 10:25
For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.
— Ezekiel 36:24